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UN council stalls plan for East Timor tribunal
By Irwin Arieff Wed Jul 13, 6:57 PM ET

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -

The Security Council is sitting on a U.N. expert panel's recommendation
foran international tribunal to try Indonesian and local militia leaders
blamed for a deadly 1999 rampage in East Timor, diplomats and U.N. officials
said on Wednesday.
The experts submitted their findings on May 26 to U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan, who transmitted their report to the 15-nation council in late
June.

Normally such a document would be officially published at that time.
But the council decided instead to delay its official release at least until
Indonesia and East Timor had added their views, council diplomats and U.N.
officials said.

Since Indonesia and East Timor's strong opposition to an international
courtis already well known, human rights activists said the council move
raised fears it meant to suppress the report altogether.

Twelve rights groups wrote Annan on Tuesday asking him to ensure the
reportwas published "as soon as possible" and its findings discussed by
thecouncil.
"I have given my report to the council," Annan said when asked if the
reportwas being killed off.

Greek Ambassador Adamantios Vassilakis, the council president for
July,denied the council wanted to suppress it.
"We received a report from the secretary-general which the council will
consider and will take appropriate action at some stage," he said.

Asked why there had been no official action to date, he said council
membersdid not want to disturb the current good relations between East Timor
and Indonesia, and wanted "to see also what the implementation of that
reportrequires.


"WARY OF OFFENDING INDONESIA

Diplomats said many council members including the United States, China and
Russia had been were wary of offending Indonesia by putting out the
reportwithout first seeking Jakarta's comments.
China and the United States flatly denied standing in the way of
itspublication. Russia had no immediate comment.

"This issue of justice in East Timor is incredibly embarrassing for
Indonesia. It is very worrying that the council now may be falling in line
behind them," said Charmain Mohamed, a researcher with New York-based Human
Rights Watch.
"The fear is that they may be secretly working on a face-saving way forward.

At the very least, the report should be published and all therecommendations
publicly aired before any deal is struck," Mohamed said in a telephone
interview.

About 1,500 civilians were killed, 250,000 driven from their homes and
others raped and tortured when the Indonesian army and proxy gangs
andmilitia razed much of East Timor in 1999.

The violence was triggered by a referendum in which mainly Catholic East
Timor voted to break free from Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim
nation, after 24 years of brutal military rule.
East Timor finally won independence in May 2002 after 2-1/2 years of U.N.
administration and centuries of Portuguese colonial rule and Indonesia
occupation.

Under international pressure, Indonesia set up a special court to hear
casesof crimes against humanity and its attorney general indicted two
governmentofficials, 18 military and police officers and a gang leader but
nohigh-level suspects.

Over the ensuing years, of the 18 tried, only the gang leader was
convicted.In February, Annan named a panel of three outside experts to
determinewhether justice had been done, despite pleas from Indonesia and
East Timor to leave the matter to them.

In their 149-page report, the experts said the Indonesian officials and
gangleaders should be tried by an international tribunal if Jakarta did not
agree to prosecute them within six months under international supervision.

The prosecutions before the Indonesian special court had been "manifestly
deficient," they concluded, "due to a lack of commitment on the part of the
prosecution" as well as a lack of expertise, experience and training.